Every goddamn day: 05/13/25

.           John F. Kennedy leaves the White House after visiting on Jan. 19, 1961.      Twenty years ago, I wrote a book about the death of...

       The United States Postal Service unveiled its new Toni Morrison stamp on Tuesday. I read about it in the Sun-times  Wednesday, and g...

Danny Weber      These columns are news stories, in theory. So I should put the most incredible part first, where you can notice it before y...

Porgy at the Lyric Opera      Sunday's Chicago Polar Plunge had a record haul — some $2 million — for the Special Olympics. As someone w...

          "Esther before Ahasuerus," by Artemisia Gentileschi (Metropolitan Museum of Art)      Religious observance was never my ...

Door knocker, Barcelona 2022         Last week Everygoddamnday.com received several hundred new subscribers, thanks to the good offices of E...

     My pal Charlie Meyerson has been bringing Chicago the news for a long time — the last two decades in the 20th century, nearly, at WXRT ...